Improved machine for making india-rubber hose, belting



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

HIMSELF AND CHARLES MCBURNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING INDIA-RUBBER HOSE, BELTING, &c.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,251, dated September 13, 1864.

To all whom it may concer-71,:

Be it known that I, JAMES BENNETT FOR- SYTH, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful machine for making hose, belting, cord, and other similar articles of india-rubber; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specitication, in which- Figure l is a view of the machine; and Fig. 2 is a section on the line .rx of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow 3.

Articles of rubber manufacture-such as hose, tubing, and pressure-rolls, as well as round beltin g andcord of solid packinghave heretofore been made entirely by hand. In making hose the material was wrapped around a wooden or metallic mandrel, of the required length and diameter, and placed upon frictionrolls on a table, where it was pressed and laid on evenly byvhand-rollers, which were run longitudinally over the folds after each partial revolution of the mandrel. Where an article was composed of solid packing, as round belting, the same operation was gone through with, excepting instead of the maudrel a narrow strip of sheet-rubber was used to start the roll. As only a small portion of the rollsay one-eighth of its circumference was turned at one operation, the rubber was laid on at successive stages, which method was slow and laborious, and consequently expensive, while the work was frequently imperfectly nished.

The object of my invention is to overcome these dithculties; and it consists in winding the rubber, either solid or around a mandrel, by placing it longitudinally between rolls or cylinders, which are revolved by any suitable power applied to gears or drums at their extremities.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A is the bed of the machine, from which rise the standards B and U. The lower rolls, D and E, have permanent bearings in the standards, and carry at their extremities the drums or pulleys F G HI,

(the two latter being shown in red, Fig. l.) The roll D is revolved by any suitable power applied to the crank J, and communicates motion to the roll E by means of the endless belts K and L, which pass over the pulleys F G H I, thereby causing the rolls D and E to revolve in the direction shown by the arrows 4. (See Fig. 2.) The journals of the upper roll, M, have their bearings in movable boxes a., which rise and fall in recesses b within the standards. Pressure is applied to the boxes a, so as to force down the roll M in the following manner: Within each standard' is a recess for the reception of a spring, c. with its lower end resting in the top of the block a, while its upper end is covered by a cap-piece, cl, (seen dotted in Fig. 2,) which is acted on by a thumb-screw, e. A spindle, N, provided with a handle, f, has its bearings in the upper part of the standards, and is connected by chains gwith the boxes a, in which the journals of the upper roll run. A collar, h, ou one end of the spindle N, is provided with notches t', into which a pawl, lc, falls when the roll M is required to be held up. A pin, Z, acts a stop to prevent the pawl from being thrown over too far.

m are friction-rolls, having their bearings in the frame, and are arranged one above the other, so as to form an incline to facilitate the passage of the rubber clot-h or sheet n to the rolls and around the mandrel o, placed between them.

p is an incline down which the article rolls as it passes from the machine.

I will now describe the operation of ina-king hose by my improved method. A strip of sheet-rubber is cut of sufficient width to form the size of the orice desired, and its edges being shaved or trimmed down it is rubbed over with camphene applied by a sponge. A mandrel of the proper diameter is then laid on it and the edges brought up together and firmly fastened by a sticking-iron, thus forming a tube around the mandrel. A piece ot' rubber cloth of the right length to form the ,number of plies desired is then taken and rubbed with camphene, and one of its edges laid carefully on the tube, to which it adheres. The other end of the rubber cloth is fastened to another piece of sheet-rubber of the exact length to form the outer casing of the inished hose. The mandrel, with the attached rubber, depending on the description of thc article is now placed between the rolls D and E, and made.

the upper roll, M, is released and forced down What I claim as my invention, and desire tc on it by the pressure of the spring c. The rolls secure by Letters Patent, is-

are set in motion by power applied tn the crank A machine for making hose, round packing, J, and themnltiplied thicknesses of rubber are cord, Wringer-rclls, tubing, and similar arrapidly,unif0rmly, and compactly laid 0n,and, ticles of rubber or rubber and cloth, consistthe upper roll being raised, the hose rolls out ing, essentially, of the parallel rolls D, E, and down the incline,when the outside edge of the M, operating substantially as described. rubber is run over by a sticking-iron, Which l'astens it down securely, and the hose is n- JAMES BENNETT FORSYTH. ished. Witnesses:

One of these machines will perform in a N. W. STEARNS,

given time as much work as four to ten men, EDWD. A. STEARNS. 

